Galatians 1:10. “For do I now persuade me, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” PLEASING MEN. All things to all men – that they will hear the Gospel and be saved:
But not able to be anything less than the servant of Christ.
False teachers’ accusations of Paul seeking followers by compromise …?
Judge for yourselves; you know the man. Is he trying to please you in this letter?
Is he trying to please men or God? You know very well he is Christ’s servant.
If we seek to please men, then we are not Christ’s slaves.
Paul’s message now is not to please men; his eye is only on his Master.
He seeks only to please Him who has called him into liberty.
From the road to Damascus to the cities of Galatia –
He received his apostleship not from Peter, James, or any others,
But from God alone, and in God’s name is able to challenge and charge.
He does not seek to please men, because he is the servant of Christ.
“O God, may I never be allowed to stoop to such a low place, as to place the interests of men above the interests and truth of God. May I be preserved from any kind of subtlety that might be perceived as seeking to please men instead of Thee my God, whom I want to serve without rival! In the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”